Dollar's Dip Shows Greenspan in Denial

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Just about everyone is worrying about the tanking dollar and the enormous U.S. trade deficit. So it's high time for Alan Greenspan, the nation's central banker, to step in and tell us how we might deal with the wilting greenback.

Instead, the Fed chairman has made a speech that will go down as the one of most flagrant pieces of self-serving tripe in financial history. ...